A sensitivity study on modeling black carbon in snow and its radiative forcing over the Arctic and Northern China

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Qian, Yun ^a   Wang, Hailong ^a   Zhang, Rudong ^a,b   Flanner, Mark G ^c   Rasch, Philip J ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; black carbon; Northern China; radiative forcing; snow

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITION; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS;

ARCTIC; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; BLACK CARBON; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; NORTHERN CHINA; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SCAVENGING EFFICIENCY; SENSITIVITY SIMULATION;

SNOW;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BLACK CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LATITUDE; MELTWATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEASONALITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; CHINA;

EID: 84903647606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/6/064001     Document Type: Article

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